Posted on 10/03/2007 6:28:55 AM PDT by Freeport
KABKABIYA, Sudan (AP) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter got in a shouting match Wednesday with Sudanese security officials who blocked him from a town in Darfur where he was trying to meet representatives of ethnic African refugees from the ongoing conflict.
The 83-year-old Carter walked into this highly volatile pro-Sudanese government town to meet refugees too frightened to attend a scheduled meeting at a nearby compound.
Carter was able to make it to a school where he met with one tribal representative and was preparing to go further into the town when Sudanese security services interrupted.
"You can't go. It's not on the program!" the local national security chief, who only gave his first name as Omar, yelled at Carter, who is in Darfur as part of a delegation of respected international figures known as "The Elders."
"We're going to anyway!" an angry Carter retorted, telling security officers they didn't have the authority to stop him.
As a growing crowd gathered around the former president, Carter's U.S. security detail and his African Union escort tried to ease tensions. Carter later agreed to a compromise by which tribal representatives would be brought to him at another location later Wednesday.
"I'll tell President Bashir about this," Carter said, referring to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
The Darfur conflict began when ethnic African rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government, accusing it of decades of neglect. Sudan's government is accused of retaliating by unleashing a militia of Arab nomads known as the janjaweed -- a charge it denies.
More than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million driven out of their homes in four years of violence.
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> ... showed courage and conviction in actually going
> to Sudan and actually confronting people who ...
Or extreme stupidity. This guy may actually be living
in an alternate moonbat reality.
But we can say with confidence:
Yes, John Kerry would not have done this.
“Carter, a man whose principles I generally deplore”
Peanutd—k was just looking for an anti-freedom, anti-Constitution, anti-American thug to surrender to. Eff him!
Thank-you Scory.
With Carter, one must question whether he is with the depraved murderers in Sudan, as his record of supporting the worst kind of 3rd World leaders cannot be questioned.
Your comments are on target though, and they need to be repeated more often.
FR used to be a place for intelligent discussion and crtical thinking (which generally landed us on the right side of the political spectrum).
Increasingly, it is a place for partisan bashing and not much more than that.
Granted, bashing and calling libs names is fun, I just wish that it would occur on appropriate threads for it.
Oh please tell me its not too late to start the fund to keep him there. I bet we can raise enough cash within hours to satisfy any unsuspecting country :)
In this case though he was in the right.
His name means worse than nothing here as far as I am concerned. The 3rd world country he was in, clearly thought little more of him...and understandably so.
Exactly...but we do not need any more of his kind of damage.
“”You don’t have the power to stop me.”
The actual quote. Earth callin’ Jimmah!
Just like the North Koreans were going to scrap their nuclear program and Hugo Chavez ran an honest election.
There’s no fool like an old fool.
That dumb f*** is going to get those good secret service personnel killed with that attitude.
Me too. I think Carter is the worst president we have ever had. He’s a moron and a communist and a supporter of dictators and murderers, but this is one of the few articles in which he wasn’t supporting murderers, indeed just the opposite. He was shouting them down. Very strange behavior for FReepers.
You forgot DOUBLE DIGET INFLATION.
That was part of the MISERY INDEX. Double digit inflation, double digit interest, and double digit unemployment.
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